Santo Domingo is the second top 10 Destination City by International Visitors (2011) on the MasterCard Index of Global Destination Cities released June 2011. Mexico City is first. The others are San Jose, Caracas, Bogota, Quito, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. SD is also second to Mexico City in visitor spending.
The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities ranks destination cities by visitor arrivals and by visitors’ cross-border expenditures by taking the sum of the total of visitor arrivals from rest of the world and their total cross-border expenditures for each of the destination cities.
The Index is compiled using international flight and flight capacity information purchased from OAG Global, a provider of international aviation data.
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